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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Pterodactyls of the Four Corners

Although this begins with an apparent Chupacabra report,
what comes out of it is an expose on multiple reports that plausibly stem from possible
pterodactyl sightings.

I knew about such sightings in New Guinea and having such
sightings appear in the four corners region is a surprise.

What is shaping up is the following:

1The creature’s wing span reaches an apparent twenty
feet which is easily twice that of the condor.

2We know that a pterodactyl had a membrane wing
system. What was not known was that it
was feathered and possibly extended in area by these feathers.

3Thus the pterodactyl does look like a cartoon version
of a giant Roc up to and including the bald head. The eyewitness report picks up a whip like
tail that is proof of been not quite a bird.

4There is obviously few of them but surely can range
globally as indicated.

5They live in mountain country and possibly were it is
mostly arid.

6They must be nocturnal or we would have ample
sightings.

7The bald head makes them natural scavengers.

8I do not see them as blood suckers and we can leave
that to the giant vampire bats who share similar niches.

We have a number of convincing reports and no hard data as
yet. The natural human assumption has
been that flying animals need daylight and that turns out to be a stupid
assumption. Large eyes are sufficient to
provide useful vision and keep the creature away from the broiling heat of the
day.

According to my friend J.C. Johnson of Crypto
Four Corners, in March 2010, 24 sheep were mutilated at a farm near
Hogback, New Mexico, on the Dine' Navajo Reservation. The livestock owner
explains that there were large talon marks but very little blood and no
evisceration. Was this an attack by a large flying predator? Why were the
carcasses left intact? Could this have been a Chupacabras? Was this another
example of animal mutilation and experimentation by non-terrestrials, aliens or
government entities?

J.C. mentioned that a large cryptid bird or pterosaur may have been
responsible for this act. That theory is not as far-fetched as it may initially
sound.

For many generations, people in New Mexico and
parts of Texas
say they've seen birds so big they seem prehistoric.

One man claims the rugged landscape near Las
Cruces hides a mystery that's haunted him for several
years.

Dave Zander has lived near the Doña Ana Mountains for more than 30 years
spending almost all his spare time hiking, exploring and fossil hunting in the
range between the Robledo and Organ mountains.

He saw something that he's unable to explain and many people find hard to
believe.

He recalls the day eleven years ago when he spotted something extraordinary: two
creatures perched on a mountain less than a mile away.

"These creatures were so huge they looked like the size of small
planes," Dave Zander said. "All of the sudden one of them jumped off
dropped off the top of the mountain, came down the front of the mountain and
all the sudden these huge wings just spread out.

"I would say the wings were at least a 20-foot wingspan."

Definitely something out of the ordinary.

"Not a normal bird, definitely of a giant variety," Zander continued.
"It makes you feel like it could come over and carry you off if it wanted
to."

Zander witness a real-life scene out of the movie JurassicPark?

One ancient bird in the vicinity is an Andean condor living at the Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque.
But it's wingspan of 12 feet pales to what Zander described: birds with an
unprecedented twenty-foot wingspan, with pink bald heads and all-black bodies,
and feathers on their enormous wings.

There is nothing on modern record like it.

"In comparison a 20 foot wingspan would truly be a monster and something
undocumented by science," cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard said. "I
believe what Dave Zander may have seen are surviving teratorns."

Gerhard has made a career studying prehistoric birds.

"What's interesting the reports of these giant raptor-like birds to
continue into modern times," he said. "We seem to have a large
concentration of them here in the Southwest particularly in the Rio GrandeValley
of Texas as well as New
Mexico and parts of Arizona."

Gerhard documented many of these strange reports from all over the globe in the
book "Big birds! Modern sightings of flying monsters."

The book includes sightings in different clusters over the past 30 years.

In 1972 in Maxwell in northeastern New Mexico,
Ronald Monteleone of Trinidad,
Colo., reported what he thought
was a pterodactyl flying out of an arroyo.

In Lordsburg in the 1800s locals talked constantly about the sightings of
pterosaurs.

And a picture circulated the country in 1890 out of Tombstone, Ariz.,
but it's never been considered totally legitimate.

Gerhard said his research falls into two different descriptions from
witnesses. Some said the birds look like the prehistoric pterodactyl while
others, like the creatures described by Zander, resemble the ancient
thunderbird from Native American mythology.

You can find thunderbird images atop many totem poles and also carved into the
lava rocks of the PetroglyphNational Monument in Albuquerque. Similar images are found in
petroglyphs all over North America.

According to legend, the thunderbird is said to have a wingspan the length of
two canoes with the ability to deafen people with the sound of its flapping
wings.

"It is definitely a real animal, according to the native peoples that
lived here," Gerhard said. "It's not necessarily a legendary
animal."

(Andean Condor)

However a word of caution comes from folks like Ben Radford, managing editor of
the Skeptical Inquirer magazine, which applies scientific reason and evidence
to extraordinary claims.

"There is a desire to link modern sightings with these Native American
stories but the problem is they're not necessarily the same thing,"
Radford said.

Radford said believes the eyewitnesses saw something:

"Ultimately a lot of these sightings, whether it's these monsters, these
creatures, Chupacabras, what have you, these come down to eyewitness
testimony," Radford said. "They're stories, there's nothing wrong
with stories, but they're just not good evidence."

"You don't have bones, teeth," he continued. "You don't have any
hard evidence, so you look to these stories, you look to these myths.

"We know from many scientific experiments people are notoriously
unreliable about estimating things."

And in this case, Radford said he thinks Zander and the other witnesses in Texas overestimated the
birds' size.

What makes the reports intriguing is that most experts agree scientists have
yet to discover every species on the planet and really have no idea what is out
there:

"I believe there's a good chance that a number of large prehistoric
animals remain undiscovered by modern science." Gerhard said.

Radford readily concedes there are species yet to be discovered, but...

"Do I think there are giant animals and birds and creatures out
there?" he said. "No."

For his part, Zander continues to keep his eyes on the skies but hasn't had a
repeat visit from the creatures. The one experience has stayed with him.

"I feel honored to have seen the one sighting," he said. "I had
if they're still up there still living up there and thriving, I say awesome,
more power to them."

I received the following email from a man who lives west of San
Antonio, Texas near MedinaLake.
He states he witnessed a large flying creature on August 11, 2009:

Dear Sir. I witnessed a large flying creature this evening that I cannot
identify. I found your site during a search. I'm apprehensive of mentioning it
to any friends or family until I can get a grip on what this was.

I live west of San Antonio, TX
near MedinaLake. Today, I was on a random outing to
the area near the DiversionLake dam. At about 7:30 pm,
I was on my way back up the trail when I suddenly heard a loud awful scream
coming from below the dam downstream. It sounded like an owl but lasted longer
and was much louder. I stopped walking and watched downstream to see if I could
catch a look at what caused the sound.

I then noticed a large flock of birds flush out of the trees near the
riverbank. Then suddenly this giant flying creature swooped down into the river
valley and just as quickly flew back up into the rocks. I continued to watch
but did not hear or see it again. I call it a creature because it looked
nothing like a bird. I was about 50 yards from it and would say conservatively
that it's wing span was 15 ft. or so! It was dark colored and had a very long
beak and a strange long thin tail. This sounds crazy, but it actually resembled
one of those flying dinosaurs though the head was not as large and it looked
like it had feathers.

I got back home and looked on the internet for examples of bird species but
found nothing close. I'm not originally from this area and have never heard of
anything like this. That is why I'm contacting you. Do you have an idea what it
was? I see you have a website, maybe someone who reads your site could help
identify it. JJ

On December 6, 2010, researcher Jonathan David Whitcomb issued the following
press release:

For generations, the mystery lights of Marfa,
Texas, have entertained residents
with their strange dancing. On some warmer nights, a ball of light seems to
split into two, which will separate and fly away from each other before turning
around and flying back together. They have recently been linked to flying
lights in the southwest Pacific, lights that natives of Papua New Guinea testify are from
large flying creatures.

In southwest Texas,
local residents have speculated about dancing devils or ghosts. Scientists have
preferred something along the lines of ball lightning or earthlights, but all
their scientific explanations have tripped over the resemblances to line
dancing. If atmospheric energies or tectonic stresses cause the displays, why
do two lights horizontally separate for a long distance before coming back
together?

Now a cryptozoologist from California
has explained the dancing lights of Marfa. Tales of spooks may hold a spark of
truth, for recent research implies intelligence directs the lights:
Bioluminescent flying predators may be hunting at night and catching a few
unlucky Big Brown Bats: Eptesicus fuscus.

According to Jonathan Whitcomb, a cryptozoology author in Long Beach,
California, when one of the bioluminescent predators has been glowing for
awhile, not far above the ground, it will be joined by another of its kind,
which will then turn on its own glow. After insects have been attracted to that
area, the two creatures will separate, which appears to distant human observers
to be one light splitting into two. The predators will fly away from each other
for some distance, then turn back and fly together. During the separation, bats
may begin feeding on the concentration of insects before being caught from two
sides by the larger predators.

Whitcomb was a forensic videographer, in 2004, when he traveled to Papua New
Guinea, hoping to videotape the glowing nocturnal "ropen," said to be
a large flying predator and scavenger. Although he did not see the creature, he
interviewed many natives, who impressed him with their credibility and amazed
him with what they had seen. Whitcomb became convinced that the ropen is a
pterosaur, commonly called by Americans "pterodactyl" or "flying
dinosaur."

After returning to the United
States, he wrote many web pages about the
concept of modern living pterosaurs in the southwest Pacific. He was surprised
at the response: emails and phone calls from eyewitnesses of apparent
pterosaurs in the United
States.

He analyzed the eyewitness accounts of those flying creatures and wrote a
nonfiction book: "Live Pterosaurs in America." The second edition
of that cryptozoology book has just been published (ISBN-13: 9781456341350).

Although Whitcomb admits that Marfa Lights may come from an unknown
bioluminescent bird or bat, he says, "It is more likely than not from a
creature similar to the ropen of Papua New Guinea, and my associates and I are
sure about the ropen: It is a pterosaur." - Jonathan David Whitcomb

NOTE: I have been reporting on Whitcomb's research and expeditions since I
started 'Phantoms and Monsters'...in fact, he has forwarded several reports
directly. This theory involving the Marfa Lights is interesting since much of
the phenomena associated with the ropen of New Guinea is similar...Lon

A quick history of the Marfa Lights: The Marfa Lights in
Western Texas, nine miles east of Marfa, are arguably the most well-known
spooklights in the US.
Within driving distance of the McDonald Observatory, the Marfa lights have been
viewed for over a century. According to a State of Texas brochure, the first recorded sighting
was made by a rancher named Robert Ellison in 1883. Apache Indians thought them
to be stars that had dropped down to earth. Today they can been seen at night
by passersby who park in a pullover spot on Hwy. 90. They are described as
changing in color and intensity, and usually move about. Most skeptics believe
the Marfa Lights are nothing more than distant auto headlights on another highway,
but that doesn't explain the pre-automobile sightings. The town of Marfa even hosts an
annual Marfa Lights Festival every September. To read more, go to - Marfa's
Legendary Lights

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